Dysse ved Tornby

Dyssekammer

Dysse ved Tornby (Tornby Dyssen) (Dyssekammer) on The Modern Antiquarian, the UK & Ireland's most popular megalithic community website. 6 images, 1 fieldnote, plus information on many more ancient sites nearby and across the UK & Ireland.

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Fieldnotes

Tornby is in the far north of Jutland about 7km south of Hirtshals. The simplest route from the south (not the way I went!) is to take the E39 between Aalborg and Hirtshals, leaving at junction 3 onto the 35 west through Hjørring.

Just outside Hjørring, the 35 meets the 55 at a roundabout. Turn right onto the 55 (north), which will take you to Tornby. Continue through Tornby and a short distance out the other (north) side.

On the right (east), you will soon see some large factories or warehouses. Opposite these there is a line of trees next to the road and behind them is a carpark, partly for a restaurant-type place (I think that's what it was) and partly for the monument.

Walk to the southern end of the carpark and follow a path SSW. You should almost immediately be able to see the dolmen a few hundred yards in front of you towards the town.

Visited 6 April 2006
A classic late neoloithic dolmen, standing in the almost ploughed out remanants of its mound. Three chamber stones and a chunky littlle capstone.

Another stone stands in front of the 'open' end of the dolmen, which I guess could be a moved chamber stone or kerbstone. I suppose it could possibly be a passage stone - if it had a passage - but it seems to be orientated wrongly for that.

Would be a great place to hang out if it wasn't raining, but on the day I visited it just didn't stop all day....